Gender and race matter global perspectives on being a woman.

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Takhar, Shaminder, Demos, Vasilikie P., Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940-
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2016.
• Σειρά: Advances in gender research, v. 21
• Θέματα: Social Science > Gender Studies.; Gender studies: women.; Women's studies.

The drive for gender equality is not a recent phenomenon with the UN cited as occupying a central role for legislative change globally. Gender inequality persists in most countries and although it appears that we have a long way to go, this collection contributes to a feminist scholarship that highl...

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• A century of Egyptian women's demands: the four waves of the Egyptian feminist movement / Hala Kamal
• The women's movement and neo-liberalism in Iran: between accommodation and resistance / Tara Povey
• Bangladeshi female students in higher education: agentic autonomy at the race/gender trajectory / Shaminder Takhar
• Women's education and employment in Iran / Elaheh Rostami-Povey
• Gender and caste intersectionality in India: an analysis of the Nirbhaya case December 16th 2012 / Adrija Dey, Bev Orton
• Negotiating gender security: the transnationalisation of local activist discourses in post-conflict Burundi and Liberia / Maria Martin de Almagro
• Gender security/sexuality in South Africa: I am HIV-positive. How could you do this to me? (Orford, 2006: 72) / Bev Orton
• Agency, resistance and subversion: voices in the field / Jaya Gajparia
• Re-mapping women's testimonies into networked subjectivities: the Quipu Project / Donatella Maraschin, Suzanne Scafe
• The body contours of Carnival: mas-playing and race in Trinidad / Kavyta Raghunandan
• Gender in post-liberalisation India: the complex trajectories of gender and (postcolonial) nationalism in Hindi cinema / Priyasha Kaul
• Migration, African writing and the post-colonial/diasporic Chimamanda Adichie moment / Carole Boyce Davies
• SUHA / Jocelyn Watson
• Woman with golden apple (no ordinary fruit) after Lotte Kramer's Boy With Orange (out of Kosovo) / Dorothea Smartt.